“Con le calcagna pagava lo scotto.”
Francesco Berni (1497–1535) Italian poet
With whip and spur he paid his tavern bill.
XLIV, 70
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
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“Con le calcagna pagava lo scotto.”
Francesco Berni (1497–1535) Italian poet
With whip and spur he paid his tavern bill.
XLIV, 70
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba
Speech (19 April 1966) http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1966/esp/f190466e.html
Hans Haacke (1936) conceptual political artist
1990s, Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere, 1998
William H. McNeill book The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (1963)
“If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
“If "pro" is the opposite of "con", is "progress" the opposite of "congress?"”
Gallagher (1946–2022) American comedian
From the 1985 movie The Bookkeeper.
“From pro's and con's they fell to a warmer way of disputing.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 10.